On 25 January 2011 00:29, Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote:
> Your mailer seems to have mangled your patch with line wrapping. There are
> some suggestions on Wine's SubmittingPatches wiki page for avoiding this.
> Primarily, you should attach the patch to your email. If you already did
> that, then you may need to use a different mailer. For example, Mail.app
> used to mess up even attached patches, although it doesn't for me anymore.
> (I don't know if that's because Mail.app changed or if git-format-patch
> changes.) When it used to be a problem, I had to use Thunderbird to send my
> Wine patches.
>
Just use git format-patch for sending patches, if possible. Mail
clients are just terrible, and using git format-patch avoids a lot of
the common issues. If you send more than one or two patches it's
usually faster too.
